Brazil: "Que país é esse"? : music and power in Legião Urbana

Lessa, Ana C. (2011) Brazil: "Que país é esse"? : music and power in Legião Urbana. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

This thesis addresses, amongst other issues, the phenomenon of protest music with particular reference to Brazil within its pre- and post-dictatorship period. The time-frame being understood as that which finds its roots many decades prior to the 1964 so-called revolution – a de facto¬ military putsch – and comes to flower in the democratic moment of the 1980s and since. The focus will be, eventually, directed to one of the most celebrated Brazilian rock phenomena, the band Legião Urbana, the impact of which still resonates across the artistic, cultural and political scene in Brazil and beyond. In order to establish the context in which such a claim can be viable, the thesis explores the ideological and historical background to the emergence, on a national, and international, stage of something beyond the artistic and cultural ‘dependence’ seing before that period within Brazilian music.

Item Type: Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors: McGuirk, B.J.
Lawrance, J.
Keywords: Rock‘n’Roll, Punk rock, protest music, popular culture, BRock, Brazilian music, dictatorship, Legião Urbana
Subjects: M Music and Literature on music > ML Literature of music
Faculties/Schools: UK Campuses > Faculty of Arts > School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
Item ID: 12167
Depositing User: EP, Services
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2012 14:29
Last Modified: 15 Dec 2017 03:16
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12167

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